Sentences with phrase «climate change in their credit»

Meanwhile, ratings agencies can enable companies to consider the financial impacts of climate change in their credit and equity ratings.

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Among the factors that could cause actual results to differ materially are the following: (1) worldwide economic, political, and capital markets conditions and other factors beyond the Company's control, including natural and other disasters or climate change affecting the operations of the Company or its customers and suppliers; (2) the Company's credit ratings and its cost of capital; (3) competitive conditions and customer preferences; (4) foreign currency exchange rates and fluctuations in those rates; (5) the timing and market acceptance of new product offerings; (6) the availability and cost of purchased components, compounds, raw materials and energy (including oil and natural gas and their derivatives) due to shortages, increased demand or supply interruptions (including those caused by natural and other disasters and other events); (7) the impact of acquisitions, strategic alliances, divestitures, and other unusual events resulting from portfolio management actions and other evolving business strategies, and possible organizational restructuring; (8) generating fewer productivity improvements than estimated; (9) unanticipated problems or delays with the phased implementation of a global enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, or security breaches and other disruptions to the Company's information technology infrastructure; (10) financial market risks that may affect the Company's funding obligations under defined benefit pension and postretirement plans; and (11) legal proceedings, including significant developments that could occur in the legal and regulatory proceedings described in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10 - K for the year ended Dec. 31, 2017, and any subsequent quarterly reports on Form 10 - Q (the «Reports»).

Cunha credits Scott — whose administration famously prohibited references to climate change or global warming in state publications — with «the best of intentions» in issuing mandatory evacuation orders.

These factors — many of which are beyond our control and the effects of which can be difficult to predict — include: credit, market, liquidity and funding, insurance, operational, regulatory compliance, strategic, reputation, legal and regulatory environment, competitive and systemic risks and other risks discussed in the risk sections of our 2017 Annual Report; including global uncertainty and volatility, elevated Canadian housing prices and household indebtedness, information technology and cyber risk, regulatory change, technological innovation and new entrants, global environmental policy and climate change, changes in consumer behavior, the end of quantitative easing, the business and economic conditions in the geographic regions in which we operate, the effects of changes in government fiscal, monetary and other policies, tax risk and transparency and environmental and social risk.

Airport expansion plans and an over-reliance on buying in emission credits to meet domestic carbon targets are negatively affecting efforts to convince other countries to take a tough stand on climate change, the environmental audit committee has found.

The Cambridge University research for the NUT found a «noticeable change in the climate of schooling» as some teachers offered incentives such as snacks or «credits» towards a day off school in a bid to encourage unruly pupils to pay more attention in the classroom.

In the draft climate change bill proposed by House Democrats, credits aimed at gaining emissions cuts by avoiding tropical deforestation would slowly decrease over time.

At a climate finance forum hosted by the International Finance Corp. last week in Beijing, Xu Huaqing, deputy director general of China's National Center for Climate Change Strategy and International Cooperation, said that carbon credits sold in the existing Chinese carbon markets already surpassed 100 million yuan ($ 16 million) as of earclimate finance forum hosted by the International Finance Corp. last week in Beijing, Xu Huaqing, deputy director general of China's National Center for Climate Change Strategy and International Cooperation, said that carbon credits sold in the existing Chinese carbon markets already surpassed 100 million yuan ($ 16 million) as of earClimate Change Strategy and International Cooperation, said that carbon credits sold in the existing Chinese carbon markets already surpassed 100 million yuan ($ 16 million) as of early May.

The Society credits Merkel for boosting German research funding and for «the leadership she has provided on the European and world stages in promoting science - based policy making over issues such as climate change.»

-- The Administrator, in consultation with the Secretary of State, may issue international offset credits in exchange for instruments in the nature of offset credits that are issued by an international body established pursuant to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, to a protocol to such Convention, or to a treaty that succeeds such Convention.

Pharmaceutical giants Bayer and GlaxoSmithKline, along with Verizon, Wisconsin Insurance Alliance, and Credit Union National Association, have announced that they will not fund the climate change denying Heartland Institute in 2012.

(SAN FRANCISCO — Oct. 22, 2013) Today U.S. environmental organizations lauded a letter from world - renowned scientist Dr. Jane Goodall to Governor Jerry Brown, calling for California to open a pathway to accept credits for reductions in tropical deforestation in its climate change program.

Seeding research funding into carbon removal options now will pay dividends in the coming decades: Photo credit: Jamie McCaffrey / Foter / CC BY By Guy Lomax and Peju Adeosun Last month, we published a Commentary in the scientific journal Nature Climate Change, co-authored with Professor Tim Lenton and Dr. Mark Workman, calling on policymakers -LSB-...]

In other words, if climate sensitivity is toward the low end, 2 K is more dangerous than we currently give it credit for, and arguments for low risk because of low sensitivity are less valid because that means that more ecological changes occur for a given temperature change than currently thought.

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The initiative involves the acquisition of premium carbon credits developed by Sustainable Carbon — Projetos Ambientais, a consultancy firm specialising in solutions for climate change.

Oeschger may thus be credited with work that was critical to validating two of the most important theories in science: the role of CO2 in climate change, and the role of changes in the earth's orbit.

Photo Credit: Wikimedia Commons Postcards from Poznan Keeps Climate Advocates in the Loop During the UN Climate Change Conference that started last week in Poznan, Poland, two globally oriented Earthjustice lawyers are sending updates from on the ground

It began a program called Harita (Horn of Africa Risk Transfer for Adaptation) in Tigray that included insurance as part of a larger climate change - adjustment program, which includes access to credit, help with savings and programs to increase crop yields.

In other words, if climate sensitivity is toward the low end, 2 K is more dangerous than we currently give it credit for, and arguments for low risk because of low sensitivity are less valid because that means that more ecological changes occur for a given temperature change than currently thought.

While there's not much of a prospect for an expanding global market in hard carbon credits like those created under the ailing Kyoto Protocol, this system provides a voluntary means for people or businesses concerned with both climate change and ending energy poverty to have their money do double duty.

TH: And you've actually testified as an expert in front of a Senate committee on climate change, and The Nature Conservancy is also pretty active in emissions trading, or carbon credit trading programs to tackle climate change issues.

via: The New York Times US Congress Take Action: Demand Congress Enact Strong Renewable Energy, Climate Change Legislation at Power Shift 09 Gore Senate Gearing Video Excerpt & Full Transcript $ 31 Billion in Alternative Energy Tax Credits Approved by Senate Finance Committee

In a passage that will likely hearten those seeing the climate change fight as a fight over capitalism, leaked version includes the pope's rejection of markets in carbon credits as a solution, warning (this is The Guardian translation) that this «could give rise to a new form of speculation and would not help to reduce the overall emission of polluting gases.&raquIn a passage that will likely hearten those seeing the climate change fight as a fight over capitalism, leaked version includes the pope's rejection of markets in carbon credits as a solution, warning (this is The Guardian translation) that this «could give rise to a new form of speculation and would not help to reduce the overall emission of polluting gases.&raquin carbon credits as a solution, warning (this is The Guardian translation) that this «could give rise to a new form of speculation and would not help to reduce the overall emission of polluting gases.»

Dr. Pielke's work on climate change effects has been criticized by Dr. Stephen Schneider, who said that with Pielke «one consistent pattern emerges - he is a self - aggrandizer who sets up straw men, knocks them down, and takes credit for being the honest broker to explain the mess - and in fact usually adds little new social science to his analysis [3].

My point was that, if we accept this basic story (it's too simple, even as an account of how cultural cognition works; but that's in the nature of «models» & should give us pause only when the simplification detracts from rather than enhances our ability to predict and manage the dynamics of the phenomenon in question), then there's no reason to view the valences of the cultural meanings attached to crediting climate change risk as fixed or immutable.

One could imagine a world in which crediting evidence of human - caused climate change and the risks it poses gratify hierarchical and individualistic sensibilities and threaten egalitarian communitarian ones.

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The report, entitled Financing Climate Disaster: How Export Credit Agencies Are a Boon for Oil and Gas, calls on USEXIM and other nations» export credit agencies (ECAs) to phase out all financial support for fossil fuels by 2020 at the latest, in order to help prevent the worst impacts of climate Climate Disaster: How Export Credit Agencies Are a Boon for Oil and Gas, calls on USEXIM and other nations» export credit agencies (ECAs) to phase out all financial support for fossil fuels by 2020 at the latest, in order to help prevent the worst impacts of climate cCredit Agencies Are a Boon for Oil and Gas, calls on USEXIM and other nations» export credit agencies (ECAs) to phase out all financial support for fossil fuels by 2020 at the latest, in order to help prevent the worst impacts of climate ccredit agencies (ECAs) to phase out all financial support for fossil fuels by 2020 at the latest, in order to help prevent the worst impacts of climate climate change.

It's notable that while Trump's choice for secretary of energy, former Texas Gov. Rick Perry, is a climate change contrarian, he's credited by clean - energy champions with overseeing an enormous expansion of wind energy in his state.

The collapse triggered a revamp of the entire RET scheme in February and prompted Climate Change Minister Greg Combet to wind back the solar credits program earlier this month.

It is divided into sections on the role of climate change finance in the context of agricultural development and poverty reduction, and a guide to developing soil carbon sequestration crediting projects.

Blue Moon Fund grant for «To support climate change in China by implementing low - emission, market - based transportation policies by introducing California's zev credits mechanism to China»

Delegates to the U.S. event also heard, however, that once the production tax credit expires investment in wind energy is likely to drop significantly through a transitional period that will extend until U.S. policies on climate change are fully implemented.

Virtually all of the activity documented in the report took place in the voluntary markets, while most media coverage of carbon trading has focused on the European Union's top - down Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS) that was initiated to handle credits and offsets generated under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).

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«For the purposes of decreasing the likelihood of catastrophic climate change, preserving tropical forests, building capacity to generate offset credits, and facilitating international action on global warming, the Administrator shall set aside the percentage specified in section 781 of the quantity of emission allowances established under section 721 (a) for each year, to be used to achieve a reduction of greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation in developing countries in accordance with part E.

If Climate change (or global warming) folks want to make their cause more saleable then they need to stop using has been Rock or movie stars, tired burned out politicos, and most of all persons that have invested great amounts of money in «green projects», «carbon credits» and other money making scams... errr sorry schemes.

The «smartest people in the world» also said Iraq had WMDs, never trust the smartest people when billions of dollars is at stake, and all that money is flowing to these people in the form of grant money, research grants, carbon credits, etc. and you said A. Climate Change, not A.GWwarming so I guess global cooling will soon be blamed on A. activity along with hurricanes and droughts.

And yet carbon and development projects that result in carbon credits tradeable on the open market are a tried and tested way of mitigating climate change.

As the link between human activity and climate change becomes conventional wisdom and governments work urgently to establish a global climate treaty, Pachauri deserves no small amount of credit for creating such an extraordinary shift in public opinion.

The auction loot goes to a «Climate Change Credit Corporation, a «private - public entity» that would «invest in many things».

Even modest changes in seasonality of rainfall, temperature, and wind patterns can push transient poor and marginalized people into chronic poverty as they lack access to credit, climate forecasts, insurance, government support, and effective response options, such as diversifying their assets.

Carbon credits assist in the mitigation of climate change by compensating or «offsetting» an emissions - producing activity.

Updated to state these errata: in the print edition of Nature Climate Change, the «0.0» label on the y - axis has been misprinted as «0.6», and the caption credits «Climate Change Foundation», not «Climate Code Foundation».

The United States and India have little in the way of deforestation that can be avoided, and argue that recognizing only credits from REDD would punish countries that had been reforesting or protecting their forests (for more on the debate over baselining, see Carbon and Avoided Deforestation: the Road to Bali or Climate Change and Forestry: a REDD Primer).

In the meantime, companies can balance the potential liability of their fossil - fuel products, e.g. coal or gas, with climate change initiatives in other parts of their business which produce «carbon credits»In the meantime, companies can balance the potential liability of their fossil - fuel products, e.g. coal or gas, with climate change initiatives in other parts of their business which produce «carbon credits»in other parts of their business which produce «carbon credits».

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